AI company Anthropic has launched a new artificial intelligence tool called Claude Gov, built especially for U.S. government agencies involved in defense and intelligence. This version of their Claude AI is tailored to work with classified and sensitive data in highly secure environments.
Claude Gov is not available to the public. It is meant only for agencies that handle national security and intelligence tasks. While Anthropic has not revealed the exact agencies or when they started using it, the company confirms that Claude Gov is already being used at the highest levels of U.S. national security.
What makes Claude Gov different from regular AI models is its ability to handle confidential inputs. While public AI versions are trained to avoid engaging with sensitive data, Claude Gov is less restrictive, helping agencies better analyze threats and intelligence reports. It is also trained to understand complex military and defense language and perform better in critical national security tasks.
“Anthropic claims that the U.S. national security customers may choose to use their AI systems for a wide range of applications from strategic planning and operational support to intelligence analysis and threat assessment. Claude Gov models deliver enhanced performance for critical government needs and specialized tasks.”
In the press announcement on the website, the company claims that the U.S. national security customers may choose to use their AI systems for a wide range of applications from strategic planning and operational support to intelligence analysis and threat assessment. Claude Gov models deliver enhanced performance for critical government needs and specialized tasks. This includes:
- Improved handling of classified materials, as the models refuse less when engaging with classified information
- Greater understanding of documents and information within the intelligence and defense contexts
- Enhanced proficiency in languages and dialects critical to national security operations
- Improved understanding and interpretation of complex cybersecurity data for intelligence analysis
Despite its expanded abilities, Anthropic says that Claude Gov went through the same strict safety checks as its public AI tools, ensuring it can be used responsibly. This move signals Anthropic’s entry into the government AI market, where it will compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Gov, launched earlier in January. OpenAI said over 90,000 U.S. government employees had used its tool in the past year for tasks such as writing policies or coding.
With governments looking for secure and specialized AI models, tools like Claude Gov show how AI is being adapted for real-world national security and defense use cases.
